Happy Halloween

I have festive candles!



I have festive socks!



Yarn: Vesper in "Candy Corn"
Started: 10/9/10
Finished: 10/29/10

Today I wore my candy corn socks... it's a dream that's taken a few years to achieve.



As for other non-Halloween things, I've been meaning to talk about my knitting trip to Port Townsend a couple weeks ago!

My lovely friend Erin had a birthday, so her sister came to town and the three of us headed out to the Olympic Peninsula for a relaxing weekend of knitting, coffee drinking, yarn shops, yummy food, and more yarn shops.

On the way there we stopped in Port Gamble and visited The Artful Ewe:



The whole store was full of baskets of fiber and yarn hanging on the walls... it was great! I found a skein of yarn there for my Blurple Waves blanket, some beautiful BFL sock yarn, and a bit of fiber.

Being silly me, I only brought a sweatshirt as I hadn't needed a real coat yet this year... thank goodness Erin brought lots of knitwear and let me borrow some of it!



We also visited the yarn store in Port Townsend, Diva Yarn. It was small, but had lots of nice stuff. I got some Merisoft there for Blurple Waves. I've decided it's a good project for souvenir yarn.

Perhaps the most amusing part of the trip to me was the sheer number of knitting projects I had packed. I spent Friday morning thinking "Oh, I should bring...!" and throwing yet another project into my bag. When I got there I realized I had brought the aforementioned Candy Corn socks, Cinnamon Grace, Pretty Thing, Skew, Girasole, and yarn to start the birthday socks for my sister.

After realizing how crazy I was to bring 5 WIPs and yarn for another project on a 2 night trip, I decided to work on each project at least once... and I did! Well, other than the birthday socks that didn't get cast on.

I'll leave you with the view from our hotel room:

A Rare Occurrence

I finished two things in a row that aren't socks. Last time it was the Odessa hat, this time...



Pattern: Cinnamon Grace
Yarn: Yarntini in "So Corny", the September 2010 club color
Started: 10/9/10
Finished: 10/24/10

Of course, both of these non-sock items were gifts. ;)



That picot bind off? Over two hours.

Feet and Books and Hats, oh my!

As some of you may have seen over on knitgrrl today, I'm going to be putting out a sock book with Cooperative Press. As part of that we're trying to gather some information on shoe size and foot measurements, as well as pictures of size 8 feet. (Although we only need photos for size 8, measurements are appreciated for all sizes! Even my bitty little feet are going in the data.)

If you'd be willing to help, check out the survey, and thanks in advance!

As far as hats, well that's totally unrelated.



Pattern: Odessa by Grumperina
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Luscious in My Blue Heaven
Started: 9/28/10
Finished: 10/11/10

As you can see I left off the beads. The hat is for a friend's sister, who has recently started chemotherapy. A knitting friend who went through chemo last year told me that her most comfortable hat was 100% silk, so when I was at Oregon Flock and Fiber I picked up this skein.

Now to knit away on the Candy Corn Socks... I need those for Halloween!

Again

Pattern: Monkey
Yarn: Knit Picks Stroll Kettle Dyed Sock in Jay
Started: 9/24/10
Finished: 10/4/10

I dashed off a quick pair of Monkey socks for a gift. It's something I tend to do quite frequently since I have the pattern memorized. Besides it's easy and looks good in almost any yarn. Something a little "fancy" for hardly any work... that's one of the types of pattern I like best.

Yesterday I started something new...



A carrot? Maybe... stay tuned.